Weekend Update
Many movies this weekend: The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, which I liked, but the heroine’s hair was both hideous and complicated. The Super-Smart Lawyer and I had wine and ground lamb pizza. Much wine. Toby Stephens is hawt. We agreed a dance party at our house is in order. Apropos of nothing, just that we both like dancing (and did I mention the wine?!?)
Then on Saturday, the Spouse and I watched Volver, starring Penelope Cruz, who tops the Spouse’s list, now she’s gotten a little older and is packing on a little weight. It was good, did not veer into magic realism as I’d feared. We drank Spanish wine to honor the country of origin.
And on Sunday, in a rare outdoor-Frampton sighting, I saw Burn After Reading AT A MOVIE THEATRE with the Greco-Sicilian Doctor. She liked it more than I did, which is good, ’cause we were celebrating her birthday.
Yeah, yawn. I’m dull. But well-viewed.
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October 6th, 2008 at 2:56 pm
I watched all 10 episodes of Season 6 of MI-5/Spooks. You will plotz when you watch it. It is so good.
October 6th, 2008 at 3:43 pm
I do believe EKM is braaaagging. She must know that you cannot see them…until she passes over those DVDs. Yeah, SO good.
Re Toby Stephens. I just can’t use the word “hot” for him. “Adorable” and “seems more accessible than your average British leading cut o’ meat” but *sexy*? Not to me. His Mr. Rochester was absolutely sexIER than any Rochester I have ever seen…but Mr. Rochester is supposed to be an ugly bastard to begin with.
Liz
October 6th, 2008 at 3:48 pm
What does it say about me that I’ve always found Mr. Rochester unbearably sexy? Even when I first started reading (and re-reading) the book? Like, ohmigod, where is my Mr. Rochester?
Guess that explains a lot about my self-absorbed, sharp-witted, aware of his own foibles husband. Hi, honey!
October 6th, 2008 at 4:21 pm
Megan, I’m with you. I’ve always preferred Mr. Rochester to Heathcliff who turns into a complete bastard when he returns. From Orson Welles through Timothy Dalton (who has played both Heathcliff and Rochester), Ciaran Hinds and now Toby Stephens, Rochester rocks my world. I even like him in the Jean Rhys novel but that maybe because Nathaniel Parker played him in the movie. I even didn’t mind William Hurt in the movie with Charlotte Gainsbourg.
Really I haven’t spent a lot of time thinking about this, I swear it.
By the way, I’ve seen Toby Stephens on stage, and he’s way hot in real life.
October 14th, 2008 at 10:53 pm
Oh, I love Tenant of Wildfell Hall! And I totally agree about Toby Stephens in this role.